Okay guys, Im having trouble here. First things first, I did read up quite a bit on this and cant quite put my finger on the problem. Having a loud"ish" groaning sound that is very obvious from about 20-60mph. Its a little more pronounced at the lower of those speeds. Once im up to highway speeds at like 70+, the noise dies down considerably. Car never shakes or drives bad, just the noise. No popping from the CV's. Did a little troubleshooting which goes as follows
Turn the car to the right, noise lessens considerably.
Turn the car to the left, noise gets louder.
Little background on the car, it has 166k miles on it and is an 06 Envoy SLT 4X4. Ive had the car for a year and this started after the first time I put it in 4wd is when I noticed it last winter. Previous owner had obviously put a new hub on the front passenger side because it is much newer and not rusty like the drivers side hub. A lot of the front end components had also been rebuilt (tie rods, springs, ball joints)
Anyways, I went to Advance auto parts they thought that the passenger side hub had gone out again, as did I. Thought maybe the previous owner used a cheap part. I felt the hubs multiple times after long highway runs but neither were ever hot. Went ahead and replaced the front passenger hub, and noticed when I took the hub off it sounded exactly the same as the new MOOG hub that I purchased. I put the MOOG on anyways and problem still persisted. I went ahead and returned the hub since it didn't cure my problem and put the other one back on.
At this point, could the drivers side hub be bad? Doesn't seem like it and the noise seems to be coming from around the differential area (to my untrained ear). Also, I added a video of what my front passenger CV axle looks like, and to me it definitely sounds loose in the diff. To my knowledge the CV's are original, as the PO gave me a book of maintenance done to the truck. I checked the front diff oil and it definitely looks full, and the book says it was changed about 30k miles ago.
What do you guys think. Could it be the CV shafts? Should I try the drivers side bearing? Im at a loss but I hate taking things into the shop because they don't know as much as these forums do. Thanks for the help!
Turn the car to the right, noise lessens considerably.
Turn the car to the left, noise gets louder.
Little background on the car, it has 166k miles on it and is an 06 Envoy SLT 4X4. Ive had the car for a year and this started after the first time I put it in 4wd is when I noticed it last winter. Previous owner had obviously put a new hub on the front passenger side because it is much newer and not rusty like the drivers side hub. A lot of the front end components had also been rebuilt (tie rods, springs, ball joints)
Anyways, I went to Advance auto parts they thought that the passenger side hub had gone out again, as did I. Thought maybe the previous owner used a cheap part. I felt the hubs multiple times after long highway runs but neither were ever hot. Went ahead and replaced the front passenger hub, and noticed when I took the hub off it sounded exactly the same as the new MOOG hub that I purchased. I put the MOOG on anyways and problem still persisted. I went ahead and returned the hub since it didn't cure my problem and put the other one back on.
At this point, could the drivers side hub be bad? Doesn't seem like it and the noise seems to be coming from around the differential area (to my untrained ear). Also, I added a video of what my front passenger CV axle looks like, and to me it definitely sounds loose in the diff. To my knowledge the CV's are original, as the PO gave me a book of maintenance done to the truck. I checked the front diff oil and it definitely looks full, and the book says it was changed about 30k miles ago.
What do you guys think. Could it be the CV shafts? Should I try the drivers side bearing? Im at a loss but I hate taking things into the shop because they don't know as much as these forums do. Thanks for the help!
